Civic hacknight #258 VIRTUAL - Lessons from Civic Tech projects

• Topic:

Are you curious to learn more established Civic Tech projects? Or interested in leading a project with Civic Tech Toronto, but don't know where to start? Join us to hear more about the highs and lows—what worked and what didn't—from Civic Tech project leaders, including:

Toronto Tech Mentoring, formerly known as the Accelerator Project (Dilini Kurukula)
https://acceleratorproject.xyz. We help individuals who are facing homelessness escape the cycle of poverty by helping them to use tech skills to advance their employment, entrepreneurship, and personal goals.

Law and Design CoLab (Avery Au)
https://lawdesigncolab.ca/
We use design and digital media to make public legal education and advocacy more impactful.

Our Data Futures (David Cox)
http://ourdatafutures.ca/
We want to move the conversation from “what governments and corporations want for data” to “what people want” and to move the decision-making influence into the hands of the people — people whose data is being collected, used, stored, handled for privacy, combined, shared, and kept accurate.

• Social Media Cheat Codes:

@CivicTechTO #civictech
https://link.civictech.ca/tweet

• Venue Sponsor:

Join us this week from the comfort of your own home, or wherever you are practicing social isolation, for a virtual civic tech hacknight!

• Check-in details:

Join us via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85847811289?pwd=THhwOEQvTlh5R3QvbWxha25xTWdGUT09
Webcams and mics optional, but encouraged!

Join via your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/wc/join/85847811289?pwd=THhwOEQvTlh5R3QvbWxha25xTWdGUT09

Dial-in by phone in Canada:
+1 647 558 0588
Meeting ID: 858 4781 1289
Password: 008446

Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack: https://link.civictech.ca/chat

• Accessibility:

We're exploring ways to make our online hacknights more accessible, but at the moment we only provide video of the presentation slides and audio.

• About Us:

Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, and all other Torontonians who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable and equitable, through design, tech, and data. (Coders are welcome, but you don’t have to be a coder to contribute!) Come and be part of it!

• Agenda:

7:00-7:10 = Welcome and Introductions
7:10-7:45 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:45-9:00 = Breakout groups (go make something!)
> 9:00 = Civic Tech Toronto Virtual Hang Out

For more info, visit http://civictech.ca
Here's our Code of Conduct: http://civictech.ca/about-us

Hope to see you Tuesday!